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Integral AI
Integral AI is a Japan-US startup building foundation world models - AI systems meant to learn, plan, and act in the real world the way people do, with an emphasis on energy efficiency and continuous, autonomous skill learning. Founded in 2021 by ex-Google AI leaders Jad Tarifi and Nima Asgharbeygi, the company positions its interactive world models as infrastructure for an AI-based economy, spanning robotics, universal simulators, and multimodal interfaces. In December 2025 it made headlines by claiming to have tested the world's first AGI-capable model, TOWA.
Pareto.AI
Pareto.AI is a San Francisco-based, talent-first human data platform that connects AI labs with a deeply vetted network of expert labelers to produce premium training data, RLHF, and evaluation signals. Founded by Thiel Fellow Phoebe Yao, the company started as a bootcamp for women and work-from-home mothers, pivoted into AI data labeling in 2023, and now positions itself as the 'verification layer' for reinforcement learning on real-world expertise, turning specialist judgment into durable reward signals under the banner 'Expert data for AGI.'
Imbue
Imbue is a San Francisco AI research lab building agents that can reason and code. Founded in 2021 as Generally Intelligent and renamed in 2023, the company is led by CEO Kanjun Qiu and CTO Josh Albrecht. After a $200M Series B that valued it above $1B, Imbue is focused on practical agent tools - most visibly Sculptor, a UI for running parallel coding agents safely in containers - guided by a mission to keep humans in control of powerful AI.
Luma AI
Luma AI is a Palo Alto-based generative AI lab building multimodal foundation models that turn text, images, and ideas into video, 3D, and interactive scenes. Its flagship product, Dream Machine, has crossed 30 million users; its Ray3 model was the first reasoning-driven video model to generate native 16-bit HDR. Backed by HUMAIN, NVIDIA, Andreessen Horowitz, AMD, and Amplify, the company is racing toward what its founders call 'unified general intelligence' for the physical world.
Poolside
Poolside is a San Francisco AI lab building foundation models purpose-built for software engineering. Founded in 2023 by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner and serial entrepreneur Eiso Kant, it trains its frontier models (malibu, point) with a technique called Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback - then deploys the whole stack inside customer environments for Global 2000 enterprises, financial institutions and the public sector.
SuperAGI
SuperAGI is a Palo Alto-based AI company building autonomous agents that run real work - sales outreach, software engineering, marketing, support - on a single platform. Founded by Ishaan Bhola and Mukunda NS, it began as an open-source agent framework on GitHub and grew into a 25+ app super-platform used by SMB and enterprise teams, backed by $10M Series A from Jan Koum's Newlands VC.